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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Scandal at the Daily Brass: Plagiarism Exposed

by Al
Butterman

Following in
the sordid tradition of Jayson Blair, Jonah Leher, and Fareed Zakaria, today
Purvis McGrew, the Open Letters Editor for the
Daily Brass, was exposed (right here in this article by me, Al Butterman) as
a blatant plagiarist.In another blow to
the book blog widely considered (again by me, Al Butterman) to be a bastion of
liberal propaganda, the Daily Brass
found itself in the strange position of having a member of its editorial staff accused
of this serious journalistic infraction by a former member of its editorial staff
in the blog’s own front page headline.That’s what they get for forgetting to freeze my login information!

Mr. McGrew, a
fiftyish Grizzly Adams type with a history of strange behavior, has more than
once been accused of taking credit for other people’s work.As recently as two week’s ago, in his staff
bio (found here) Mr.
McGrew claimed to have contributed to Christamar Varicella’s disturbing science
fiction novel, Dinosaur Ghost(Chapter
1), although Mr. Varicella, consistently, albeit privately, denied such
rumors. ( Interview
with Christamar Varicella)Mr. Varicella
could not be reached for comment.

Had he responded to my emails, Varicella might have learned of an even
more egregious case of malfeasance committed by one of his star journalists.That’s right (here comes the big one), Purvis
McGrew (it is now going to come to light) committed outright plagiarism in his
August 26 letter to Ayn Rand (found here)
in which he claimed to have invented the philosophy of Insectivism.As part of his
philosophy, Mr. McGrew states, “man cannot exist
independently of insects, and that the central purpose of life is to strive
toward the happiness, not of the individual, but of the individual insect.”

Compare this to the philosophy of Insectivism created by one Professor
Ellington Sinclair (Boom!), whose philosophy was espoused in a review by the
Daily Brass’s own Sally Putterman (Boom! Boom!), who wrote her July article, Review: A
Bug Story, “Most importantly, the Professor developed
the philosophy of Insectivism,
whereby he established that a) reality does not exist independently
of insects, b) human beings can not
escape direct contact with insects, and c) that the central moral purpose of
life is the pursuit not of your own happiness, but of the happiness of insects.”

That’s right!Not only did Mr. McGrew, take credit for a
philosophy that was not his, he plagiarized one of his own co-workers, and his
co-worker covered it up! Boom!Boom! Boom!You feel that, Sally?That’s
bombs dropping!Eat it, Daily Brass!Eat it Sally Putterman!Eat it Christamar Varicella and all your other
little minions!You have been
Butterized!You can’t fire me!I’ll take all you Bitches down!The Butterman can cause he thinks it feels
good to make you all eat shit!I did it,
Ma!I got ‘em!I’m champion of the world!